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Along with other contributions from the Shapiros, such as a $5 million gift that formed the Carl J. Shapiro Clinical Center for Ambulatory Care, the recent gift will make the Shapiros the biggest donors in the history of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
Last Thursday marked what may be Colombia's best chance to avert a hellish future. At the southern town of San Vicente del Caguan, inside the jungle realm of the biggest and fiercest Marxist guerrilla group--the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)--the rebels and the government of President Andres Pastrana Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief...
...techie gizmos for now. Real luxury should simplify a driver's life, not complicate it, they say. "Some of these kinds of items come in handy," says DaimlerChrysler's Sloan. "But we have to be careful about creating too much driver distraction." Maybe so. For now, though, the biggest distractions seem to be parked in rival dealers' lots...
...status ladder of network news, anchoring a morning newscast has long been a sign that you haven't quite made it to the top rung of superstardom. Today co-anchor Katie Couric, one of NBC's biggest stars despite the fact that she has to appear in full makeup at 7 a.m., has gone a long way toward disproving that accepted wisdom. Still, early-morning duty is widely regarded as a stepping stone to the really plum jobs on the evening news or one of the prime-time newsmagazines...
...have contributed directly to the decline of America by choosing two of the biggest buffoons our planet has ever known. JAMES MABRY Anchorage...